Illinois · Nonprofit
BULAMU INTERNATIONAL
BULAMU INTERNATIONAL (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,238,357 to it, the largest being THE EUCALYPTUS FOUNDATION ($400,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $236k
What Bulamu International does
Mission
We treat the sick and strengthen health systems serving Africans most in need.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Since 2023 Bulamu has funded and organized WHO Essential Newborn Care training for 256 maternity workers who work at 104 public health centers. Post training these health facilities teams delivered more than 76,000 newborns in 2024 providing improved standards of care. to more than 152,000 mothers and babies last year. These 104 health facilities successfully resuscitated more than 2,000 newborns at birth a 61% increase from 2023. These same facilities reported a 26% increase in women receiving four or more antenatal visits and a 14% increase in live births further indicators of significant improvements in the quality of care provided with Bulamu support.
$380,006 spent32% of program spendingDirect Treatment Programs: Bulamu-led and organized programs that treat patients directly who otherwise would not receive quality medical care. All care is provided at no charge to the patients their families and communities. In 2024 with our long-time partner the Association of Surgeons of Uganda ASOU Bulamu treated and supported more than 3,000 surgery patients through three distinct direct programs: Surgery Intensive Program Angel Patient Referral Program and the ASOU Annual Surgery Program.
$796,133 spent68% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,176,139.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $163k to $294k (+81%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of BULAMU INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Richard Siegler
President and CEO
Board chair
Elena Patterson
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 18 funders, grant income rose $2k → $596k.
12 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 63% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BULAMU INTERNATIONAL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BULAMU INTERNATIONAL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BULAMU INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 49% · 2020 35% · 2021 34% · 2022 40% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
56% of BULAMU INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
63% of BULAMU INTERNATIONAL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $831k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BULAMU INTERNATIONAL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,608 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,608 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BULAMU INTERNATIONAL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BULAMU INTERNATIONAL: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BULAMU INTERNATIONAL?
- BULAMU INTERNATIONAL (Illinois) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,238,357 to it, the largest being THE EUCALYPTUS FOUNDATION ($400,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BULAMU INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,238,357 in grants to BULAMU INTERNATIONAL, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BULAMU INTERNATIONAL?
- THE EUCALYPTUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BULAMU INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 29 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing